Do the cars belong to the drivers? No. They are the company's property.
As others have said, this is the government mandating it and not the companies.
Frankly, you should be thankful the cabbies are sticking up for you. Imagine if you would if you ever went to a place that was deemed undesirable? All a government entity would have to is cross check your credit card and cabbie GPS records.
Oh looks like you went to a psychiatrist? Maybe you stayed at a hotel that they were having a "anarchist" or "evil hacker" conference. Maybe thats a known drug dealers apartment even though you were just visiting your old grandma next door and they just needed to trump up some charges?
Technology in itself isn't good or evil like a baseball bat can be use to play a game or beat someone to a bloody pulp.
But sometimes technology has to have oversight and expectations of what it can be used for. If you sell C4 or parts to make a nuclear reactor in your local hardware store, chances of it being used for good is quite nil.
Cell Phone providers do not have to provide you with the ability to unlock your phones nor provide you with the information, but they cannot legally sue their customers for unlocking them according to Federal rules.
Is the West Bank and Gaza occupied territory or is it a part of Israel?
If the Palestinians become Israeli citizens you have to make the assumption that they are a part of Israel which is completely wrong.
I'm all for Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the West bank and letting the Palestinians have their own state and be rightful citizens of their own nations.
But if you are to confer them Israeli citizenship you no longer admit them to have their own free country and that those occupied territories are just an extension of Israel proper (which most Palestinians would say they are not). It would be like telling the Bosnians that there are going to get full citizen rights as Serbians.
So lets talk about given the Palestinians sovereignty rather than a foreign country's citizenship shall we? I'm sure they feel the same way.
Several time in the past, how you voted could have meant your job and sometimes your life. History has this thing where it tends to repeat itself.
Then why not just make it illegal to have prejudiced based on political beliefs.
As far as the current US laws go, you cannot discriminate for race, religion or sex.
The difference between religion and political views is quite minimal and often intertwined. So if you are fired from your job because you are a Socialist, then you should have the right to sue just like if they found out you were a Mormon.
And equal housing laws say you can't not raise rent or not given housing to people just because they are a certain race. At the time being this is not the case but should be changed.
At the same time, I could see a worst case scenario in which the ruling party ignores these laws and puts people that voted against them on black lists.
But here is the deal... Lets imagine a scenario.
The year is 1933 and you are a well to do son of a factory worker who is now in college and is of age to vote while living in some unnamed European country.
The choice is that either you get counted but you have to be registered, but in the parrallel universe annonymous votes are allowed but the political parties cheat the system.
So in the worse case scenario in the country that you were registered the Socialist Democrats win office and the evil political party looses. Unfortunately, they find out and they fire your father and you landlord kicks you out. You have to simply find elsewhere to live and your father must find a new job.
In the other scenario, you vote anonymously, but the evil political party cheats the system, wins the election, installs a dictatorship and even though you don't get caught on your political views you get drafted into the army to fight a war of a aggression and your father dies when the enemy bombs the factory.
Yes, I do approve of anonymous voting but if the choice is between being tied to my vote or someone cheating the system, I'd rather suffer the inconveniences on a personal level than a national one.
Actually, the government can hold patents but they can't sue anyone over them. I remember about the Dept. of Navy having a truck load of patents, but in order to play fair with their contractors they must respect patents. But of course if they patent it first then a private company can't sue the government, but the government isn't supposed to sue patent violators (or something like that).
Not using the seatbelt only endangers myself.... and the people your car hits after you go through the windscreen.
If you go through the window the energy needed to break the reinforced glass would have been severely dampened on the impact. No one would be seriously injured from your body at that point. However, considering the energy needed to put you through the window, I would be concerned about the velocity of the car at that point.
Oh and what about people driving motorcycles. If they were a helmet they are more dangerous if they hit you than without it.
Open container laws are a public safety matter. You don't want drivers to be drinking in the car and the same goes for their passengers.
Huh?
So a driver who lets his passenger drink but abstains himself is just as dangerous than a driver who chugged a 5th of tequila and got behind the wheel?
And come to think of it, the only time they would find out about the open container if and only if they police officer searches the car which has happened because the driver was already drunk.
And it does not matter if the driver was drinking before or during driving, because he is drunk and should be punished.
But the fact alone a cop could arrest a driver even if he is completely sober because his passenger was drinking is completely and utterly wrong. Its just a law to put more people through the system.
To be fair, WWI did not work and resulted in WWII.
And to be really fair, the Imperial Kaiser parliament was more democratic than our Tsarist allies and on par with the British Imperial colonial rule. (Ask anyone in India and Pakistan if the British Empire was democratic)
Had Germany won WWI, then WWII would have never happened. Germany would have migrated towards a more democratic government due to its pressures from the German parliament to move towards a more constitutional government.
Hitler would have no impetus to get into politics nor would the Nationalist Socialist party would not have gotten the disenfranchised veteran support it needed to win the 1933 elections and the holocaust would have never happened.
Lastly, Imperial Germany would have guaranteed the independence of Finland, Ukraine, Baltic states against Soviet Occupation keeping them from having to suffer 60 years of communist rule.
Oh and lastly... Imperial Germany was at odds with Imperial Japan over its Pacific holdings. If Imperial Germany was around then they would be at war with Japan way before Japan would with the US.
So maybe... Just maybe that interventions we had during WWI had some blowback that was unintended. Of course when we do this we get into the game of what-ifs? I mean what if Franz Ferdinand didn't get shot? Who the heck knows... The the truth is that WWI caused WWII and more suffering because of bad politics and foreign policy.
No. Apparently this thing was soley designed for embedded processors in video equipment.
FTFA (page 2):
Each TILE64 processor is capable of encoding two simultaneous streams of H.264 video, and over ten streams of broadcast-quality high definition video. That would be a boon for anyone that wants to stream live directly from the DV camera or video rackmount gear.
This is backwards. Companies which are buying hardware are buying hardware because they already have a successful business model (or one they expect to be successful). The differentiator between successful and unsuccessful companies isn't how much hardware they buy, it's the viability of their business plan/product.
I would agree, but seeing things from the street level as support goes, I would argue that companies who don't put enough money into IT or streamlining its process will loose money.
Each one of these items will cause a company to loose each time it happens:
-Password reset -Slow application speeds -Computer reboot due to freeze/crash -Slow boot times -Drive re-image because of boot failure -Email storage over the limit -VPN being unavailable -Exchange server being down
This list could go on, but even though this do not cost money upfront as say the entire sales SQL database being down or the company front end customer web page being down, but if your employees are constantly not working because they can't, then you are loosing money.
The moral of this story though is to buy decent hardware and maintain it right or you might as well have thrown the money into the fire place. I don't think you need to buy suped up gaming rigs for your employees but you do at least need to give them something that does take 5 minutes to boot in the morning and more than 50mb of email space.
Oh which leads me to point out that when you force low quotas on email accounts your smarter employees will start using gmail which might put you at risk for putting confidential information on the net which is as secure as your employees home computer if they access Gmail at home. So buck up and give them the 2 gigs (hard drive space is cheap as it is) or just get ready to ban all outside email and file storage sites on the corporate firewall and make a mandatory auto archive policy so that people aren't wasting time calling the support center complaining they can't send emails because they are over the limit.
Are you saying that fake UFO videos, footage of idiotic junior high school students lip-synching, dogs doing tricks, and pirated re-runs of The Simpsons are an "essential public service?"
How about trying South Korea's infrastructure in a country that has nearly 100 times the landmass, with a population density that completely destroys the cost effectiveness of close-in networking topographies?
New Jersey and South Korea have about the same population density (1,200 vs 1,000 persons per square mile), yet New Jersey's internet sucks.
Of course a better comparison would be to ask why Finland (who has a population density of 40/sq mi) has better internet than us.
Why can't we have a candidate who both opposes a police state and, say, acknowledges that man-made pollution is a serious evil?
From a personal view I disagree on Ron Paul on several issues:
1. Abortion 2. Pollution (although he says companies do not have the right to pollute your personal property) 3. Universal Health care
That said... If given the choice to live in a fascist police state that was completely pro-choice, completely clean and lacking pollution, and a free universal health care system and a democratic republic that was quasi-pro life, quasi-pro corporation when it comes to pollution, and no universal health care, I would not go live in the fascist state.
Mostly because I don't like the fact that basic human rights are being trampled on and I could at any moment be derided as an enemy of the state for no good reason even if I followed every rule and praised our leader (Many of the people that Stalin offed were party fanatics singing him praises on the way to the firing squads)
And to be really fair, chances are that if we do get a fascist government in the US we wouldn't get universal health care, pro-choice laws, and a nice environment anyways.
So I'll just support Ron Paul because he is the only candidate coming forth and standing up for anti-government powers.
Back when I was growing up in the 90's liked reading books too much on Hitler, Mao, and Stalin as a morbid past time but its shocked me when our government starts having the same practices. I guess it was all fun and games till it starts happening to you.
What's Citrix's track record like with the open source community?
For some reason I thought Citrix was bought out by Microsoft, but I forgot it was that Microsoft only bought the rights to Citrix Metaframe and came up with Terminal Server using that software. And then that had a spat over Windows NT itself.
Israel is not a country of equal rights. Perhaps, if they were they would have peace and security.
Here is the deal. Being an Arab in regular Israel isn't that bad. They have even have Arab members in the Knesset.
However, if you are someone who lives in the West Bank or Gaza strip then your life is generally like living in a prison.
HOWEVER, if you view this as occupied territory and these land areas as not part of Israel then those people who live in it are not Israeli citizens but rather citizens of their own state.
But if you demand equality for these persons as Israeli citizens you imply that these territories are a part of Israel.
So which is it?
Personally, I believe that these places are occupied territories and the only solution is going to be a withdrawal like in Gaza. That said, if these persons should get treated as citizens of their own country and not as Israelis second class or not.
When the Crusaders retook Jerusalem from Saladin's forces the firt thing they did was massacre the Jewish population who had been living there under the protection of the Moslem forces for generations.
To be fair, the Crusaders also killed off many Christians by accident in their rage after they breached the wall.
And of course, these were some of the same fellows who sacked Orthodox Christian Constantinople on the way over.
And many of the German crusaders never left Germany and decided that crusading just meant burning Jewish villages. Not to mention Martin Luther and many of the protestant founders were highly anti-Jewish and wrote scathing pieces on how they should be burned.
And to be really fair, most Muslims of the time were fairly open minded to alternative religions and even when the Ottomans occupied Greece and Georgia they were fairly open mind about letting them do their own thing, but it was really after the British empire had its way did we see Pan-Arabic nationalism and the anti-Israel sentiment.
What does the Torah say for the world circle in that section? It says "chuwg" which means:
1. circle, circuit, compass
2. (BDB) vault (of the heavens)
Well a circuit nor compass is a sphere so I don't think this interpretation is valid. Secondly it talks about earth being a tent which even if you are talking about the ancient circular tends is still not a sphere.
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Does anyone remember when TV simple to use, and most of the shows were better?
I remember when MTV used to play music videos.
Boy... I'm old.
We are descended from sky gods.
Pshah! I don't know about your but my ancestors were hallow earthers.
Do the cars belong to the drivers? No. They are the company's property.
As others have said, this is the government mandating it and not the companies.
Frankly, you should be thankful the cabbies are sticking up for you. Imagine if you would if you ever went to a place that was deemed undesirable? All a government entity would have to is cross check your credit card and cabbie GPS records.
Oh looks like you went to a psychiatrist? Maybe you stayed at a hotel that they were having a "anarchist" or "evil hacker" conference. Maybe thats a known drug dealers apartment even though you were just visiting your old grandma next door and they just needed to trump up some charges?
Technology in itself isn't good or evil like a baseball bat can be use to play a game or beat someone to a bloody pulp.
But sometimes technology has to have oversight and expectations of what it can be used for. If you sell C4 or parts to make a nuclear reactor in your local hardware store, chances of it being used for good is quite nil.
Spoken like someone who is not a parent.
Could it be that natural instincts get in the way of logical thought?
Perhaps you can draw up a Five Year Plan for the video game industry and we can implement it after the Revolution, comrade.
To be fair, Tetris was one of the best selling games of all time and was written by someone living under communism.
Lawyers my eye, this is probably covered by the DMCA reverse engineering, same as for unlocking XBoxes and so forth.
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I had to look this up but Cell Phones have been ruled to be one of the exceptions to the the DMCA:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061124-828
http://www.darknet.org.uk/2007/04/legal-to-unlock
Cell Phone providers do not have to provide you with the ability to unlock your phones nor provide you with the information, but they cannot legally sue their customers for unlocking them according to Federal rules.
Palestinians are denied citizenship by Israel.
Whoa there!
Is the West Bank and Gaza occupied territory or is it a part of Israel?
If the Palestinians become Israeli citizens you have to make the assumption that they are a part of Israel which is completely wrong.
I'm all for Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the West bank and letting the Palestinians have their own state and be rightful citizens of their own nations.
But if you are to confer them Israeli citizenship you no longer admit them to have their own free country and that those occupied territories are just an extension of Israel proper (which most Palestinians would say they are not). It would be like telling the Bosnians that there are going to get full citizen rights as Serbians.
So lets talk about given the Palestinians sovereignty rather than a foreign country's citizenship shall we? I'm sure they feel the same way.
Several time in the past, how you voted could have meant your job and sometimes your life. History has this thing where it tends to repeat itself.
Then why not just make it illegal to have prejudiced based on political beliefs.
As far as the current US laws go, you cannot discriminate for race, religion or sex.
The difference between religion and political views is quite minimal and often intertwined. So if you are fired from your job because you are a Socialist, then you should have the right to sue just like if they found out you were a Mormon.
And equal housing laws say you can't not raise rent or not given housing to people just because they are a certain race. At the time being this is not the case but should be changed.
At the same time, I could see a worst case scenario in which the ruling party ignores these laws and puts people that voted against them on black lists.
But here is the deal... Lets imagine a scenario.
The year is 1933 and you are a well to do son of a factory worker who is now in college and is of age to vote while living in some unnamed European country.
The choice is that either you get counted but you have to be registered, but in the parrallel universe annonymous votes are allowed but the political parties cheat the system.
So in the worse case scenario in the country that you were registered the Socialist Democrats win office and the evil political party looses. Unfortunately, they find out and they fire your father and you landlord kicks you out. You have to simply find elsewhere to live and your father must find a new job.
In the other scenario, you vote anonymously, but the evil political party cheats the system, wins the election, installs a dictatorship and even though you don't get caught on your political views you get drafted into the army to fight a war of a aggression and your father dies when the enemy bombs the factory.
Yes, I do approve of anonymous voting but if the choice is between being tied to my vote or someone cheating the system, I'd rather suffer the inconveniences on a personal level than a national one.
Actually, the government can hold patents but they can't sue anyone over them. I remember about the Dept. of Navy having a truck load of patents, but in order to play fair with their contractors they must respect patents. But of course if they patent it first then a private company can't sue the government, but the government isn't supposed to sue patent violators (or something like that).
Intent is one hellava law.
Because its all theoretical. One could claim you had intent for terrorist by filling up your gas tank in order to drive into a crowd of people.
Intent should not be illegal. The actually crime should be.
Not using the seatbelt only endangers myself. ... and the people your car hits after you go through the windscreen.
If you go through the window the energy needed to break the reinforced glass would have been severely dampened on the impact. No one would be seriously injured from your body at that point. However, considering the energy needed to put you through the window, I would be concerned about the velocity of the car at that point.
Oh and what about people driving motorcycles. If they were a helmet they are more dangerous if they hit you than without it.
Open container laws are a public safety matter. You don't want drivers to be drinking in the car and the same goes for their passengers.
Huh?
So a driver who lets his passenger drink but abstains himself is just as dangerous than a driver who chugged a 5th of tequila and got behind the wheel?
And come to think of it, the only time they would find out about the open container if and only if they police officer searches the car which has happened because the driver was already drunk.
And it does not matter if the driver was drinking before or during driving, because he is drunk and should be punished.
But the fact alone a cop could arrest a driver even if he is completely sober because his passenger was drinking is completely and utterly wrong. Its just a law to put more people through the system.
So you're saying World War I and II didn't work?
To be fair, WWI did not work and resulted in WWII.
And to be really fair, the Imperial Kaiser parliament was more democratic than our Tsarist allies and on par with the British Imperial colonial rule. (Ask anyone in India and Pakistan if the British Empire was democratic)
Had Germany won WWI, then WWII would have never happened. Germany would have migrated towards a more democratic government due to its pressures from the German parliament to move towards a more constitutional government.
Hitler would have no impetus to get into politics nor would the Nationalist Socialist party would not have gotten the disenfranchised veteran support it needed to win the 1933 elections and the holocaust would have never happened.
Lastly, Imperial Germany would have guaranteed the independence of Finland, Ukraine, Baltic states against Soviet Occupation keeping them from having to suffer 60 years of communist rule.
Oh and lastly... Imperial Germany was at odds with Imperial Japan over its Pacific holdings. If Imperial Germany was around then they would be at war with Japan way before Japan would with the US.
So maybe... Just maybe that interventions we had during WWI had some blowback that was unintended. Of course when we do this we get into the game of what-ifs? I mean what if Franz Ferdinand didn't get shot? Who the heck knows... The the truth is that WWI caused WWII and more suffering because of bad politics and foreign policy.
FTFA (page 2): Each TILE64 processor is capable of encoding two simultaneous streams of H.264 video, and over ten streams of broadcast-quality high definition video. That would be a boon for anyone that wants to stream live directly from the DV camera or video rackmount gear.
This is backwards. Companies which are buying hardware are buying hardware because they already have a successful business model (or one they expect to be successful). The differentiator between successful and unsuccessful companies isn't how much hardware they buy, it's the viability of their business plan/product.
I would agree, but seeing things from the street level as support goes, I would argue that companies who don't put enough money into IT or streamlining its process will loose money.
Each one of these items will cause a company to loose each time it happens:
-Password reset
-Slow application speeds
-Computer reboot due to freeze/crash
-Slow boot times
-Drive re-image because of boot failure
-Email storage over the limit
-VPN being unavailable
-Exchange server being down
This list could go on, but even though this do not cost money upfront as say the entire sales SQL database being down or the company front end customer web page being down, but if your employees are constantly not working because they can't, then you are loosing money.
The moral of this story though is to buy decent hardware and maintain it right or you might as well have thrown the money into the fire place. I don't think you need to buy suped up gaming rigs for your employees but you do at least need to give them something that does take 5 minutes to boot in the morning and more than 50mb of email space.
Oh which leads me to point out that when you force low quotas on email accounts your smarter employees will start using gmail which might put you at risk for putting confidential information on the net which is as secure as your employees home computer if they access Gmail at home. So buck up and give them the 2 gigs (hard drive space is cheap as it is) or just get ready to ban all outside email and file storage sites on the corporate firewall and make a mandatory auto archive policy so that people aren't wasting time calling the support center complaining they can't send emails because they are over the limit.
Oh and...
Are you saying that fake UFO videos, footage of idiotic junior high school students lip-synching, dogs doing tricks, and pirated re-runs of The Simpsons are an "essential public service?"
Bread and circuses.
How about trying South Korea's infrastructure in a country that has nearly 100 times the landmass, with a population density that completely destroys the cost effectiveness of close-in networking topographies?
/sq mi) has better internet than us.
New Jersey and South Korea have about the same population density (1,200 vs 1,000 persons per square mile), yet New Jersey's internet sucks.
Of course a better comparison would be to ask why Finland (who has a population density of 40
Why can't we have a candidate who both opposes a police state and, say, acknowledges that man-made pollution is a serious evil?
From a personal view I disagree on Ron Paul on several issues:
1. Abortion
2. Pollution (although he says companies do not have the right to pollute your personal property)
3. Universal Health care
That said... If given the choice to live in a fascist police state that was completely pro-choice, completely clean and lacking pollution, and a free universal health care system and a democratic republic that was quasi-pro life, quasi-pro corporation when it comes to pollution, and no universal health care, I would not go live in the fascist state.
Mostly because I don't like the fact that basic human rights are being trampled on and I could at any moment be derided as an enemy of the state for no good reason even if I followed every rule and praised our leader (Many of the people that Stalin offed were party fanatics singing him praises on the way to the firing squads)
And to be really fair, chances are that if we do get a fascist government in the US we wouldn't get universal health care, pro-choice laws, and a nice environment anyways.
So I'll just support Ron Paul because he is the only candidate coming forth and standing up for anti-government powers.
Back when I was growing up in the 90's liked reading books too much on Hitler, Mao, and Stalin as a morbid past time but its shocked me when our government starts having the same practices. I guess it was all fun and games till it starts happening to you.
Well at least you didn't spend $300 bucks to install Mandriva.
What's Citrix's track record like with the open source community?
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For some reason I thought Citrix was bought out by Microsoft, but I forgot it was that Microsoft only bought the rights to Citrix Metaframe and came up with Terminal Server using that software. And then that had a spat over Windows NT itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrix#Microsoft_dea
ISPs should start charging for bandwidth used just like electric, gas, and other utilities.
Been there, done that in the mid 90's and earlier.
People didn't like it and the ISPs who didn't change to a full whole hog 24/7 access plan died out or got bought by companies who did.
Israel is not a country of equal rights. Perhaps, if they were they would have peace and security.
Here is the deal. Being an Arab in regular Israel isn't that bad. They have even have Arab members in the Knesset.
However, if you are someone who lives in the West Bank or Gaza strip then your life is generally like living in a prison.
HOWEVER, if you view this as occupied territory and these land areas as not part of Israel then those people who live in it are not Israeli citizens but rather citizens of their own state.
But if you demand equality for these persons as Israeli citizens you imply that these territories are a part of Israel.
So which is it?
Personally, I believe that these places are occupied territories and the only solution is going to be a withdrawal like in Gaza. That said, if these persons should get treated as citizens of their own country and not as Israelis second class or not.
When the Crusaders retook Jerusalem from Saladin's forces the firt thing they did was massacre the Jewish population who had been living there under the protection of the Moslem forces for generations.
To be fair, the Crusaders also killed off many Christians by accident in their rage after they breached the wall.
And of course, these were some of the same fellows who sacked Orthodox Christian Constantinople on the way over.
And many of the German crusaders never left Germany and decided that crusading just meant burning Jewish villages. Not to mention Martin Luther and many of the protestant founders were highly anti-Jewish and wrote scathing pieces on how they should be burned.
And to be really fair, most Muslims of the time were fairly open minded to alternative religions and even when the Ottomans occupied Greece and Georgia they were fairly open mind about letting them do their own thing, but it was really after the British empire had its way did we see Pan-Arabic nationalism and the anti-Israel sentiment.
Are you so sure?
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What does the Torah say for the world circle in that section? It says "chuwg" which means:
1. circle, circuit, compass
2. (BDB) vault (of the heavens)
Well a circuit nor compass is a sphere so I don't think this interpretation is valid. Secondly it talks about earth being a tent which even if you are talking about the ancient circular tends is still not a sphere.
http://www.studylight.org/lex/heb/view.cgi?number
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-hebrew/2002-
(I just so happened to be near a friend who knows elementary Hebrew and so doesn't know the word sphere but that is not it)
If we don't fix what the parents broke, they too will become bad parents and repeat the process.
Its nothing a vasectomy couldn't solve.